Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that a question has already been asked about export credit guarantees , but does not my right hon. Friend feel that the Government could be more pragmatic , constructive and helpful in assisting manufacturing industry to gain the many orders for capital equipment in the Soviet Union and eastern European countries that can not proceed because of the Department 's failure to grant export credit cover ? |
| 2 | As in the case of Cubism , Apollinaire tried to give the word as much of an all-inclusive meaning as possible : ‘ Orphism has already been talked about a great deal . |
| 3 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 4 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 5 | Some concern has also been expressed about the impact of conglomerate mergers on the economy and it is this issue which is addressed next . |
| 6 | Some caution has already been expressed about the extent to which the new GCSE examinations will reach less able children previously excluded from the Certificate of Secondary Education . |
| 7 | Ironists reflect with pleasure that nevertheless one of the great literary biographies of the century has subsequently been written about Proust . |
| 8 | No film has yet been made about LSD . |